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AI-designed mRNA 2.0 therapeutics for in vivo CAR-T cancer and autoimmune therapy; $35.8M raised with Amgen Ventures backing advancing KR-335 toward IND filing.
Kernal Biologics is a clinical-stage biotech developing AI-designed mRNA therapeutics for cancer and autoimmune diseases — using machine learning to engineer cell-type-specific mRNA sequences that direct therapeutic payloads (including CAR-T gene programs) to the right cells in vivo, enabling off-the-shelf CAR-T cancer therapy without the individualized cell extraction and ex vivo manufacturing process that makes current CAR-T treatments cost $400,000+ and require weeks of production time. The Y Combinator-backed company has raised $35.8 million including a $25 million Series A led by Hummingbird Ventures with participation from Amgen Ventures.
Richmond VA tobacco and nicotine (NYSE: MO) ~$9.7B net revenue FY2024; Marlboro 40%+ US cigarette share, on! oral pouch competing with Zyn, 50%+ operating margins, ABI stake, competing with Reynolds/BAT.
Altria Group, Inc. is a Richmond, Virginia-based tobacco and nicotine company — publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: MO) as an S&P 500 Consumer Staples component — manufacturing and selling cigarettes (Marlboro — the best-selling cigarette brand in the United States), smokeless tobacco (Copenhagen, Skoal, Red Seal, Husky chewing tobacco/moist snuff brands), oral nicotine pouches (on! brand), and maintaining a 10.7% ownership stake in Anheuser-Busch InBev (SABMiller acquisition consideration shares) and a 35% stake in JUUL Labs (vaping — original $12.8B investment written down to minimal value following JUUL's regulatory and litigation difficulties) through approximately 5,500 employees. In fiscal year 2024, Altria reported revenues of approximately $20.6 billion (net revenues after excise taxes approximately $9.7 billion), with the cigarette segment (Marlboro generating 40%+ US cigarette market share) contributing the majority of operating income at 50%+ adjusted operating margins — the highest margins in the consumer staples sector reflecting cigarettes' inelastic demand and regulated market structure. CEO Billy Gifford has pivoted Altria's strategy from cigarettes toward smoke-free nicotine products: the on! oral nicotine pouch (acquired full ownership of Helix Innovations in 2023, rebranding as on! to compete with Swedish Match Zyn, the dominant US oral nicotine pouch brand) represents Altria's primary nicotine product diversification vehicle as cigarette volume declines 7-8% annually through consumer quit rates and secular health awareness trends.
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